I should stop trying to figure out what to do with my son because he can obviously fend for himself. We traveled so much last month that I made zero progress looking into the next steps to help my son (2 years 6 months) move toward reading. The most I managed to do was download the Starfall Learning to Read app. My son flew through the phonetic exercises with zero mistakes and wasn't interested anymore.
I went out of town on Monday and got back Thursday morning. At some point in those few days he made another leap. This morning he read my shirt by sounding it out. He has spent the day spelling words using phonetics rather than letters and when we were running errands in the car he was back there sounding out a book.
I wouldn't call this fluent reading at all but it's definitely progressing. He also seems to have made another language jump and is now using much more complex sentences.
He has also started counting backwards which is totally new and I've heard him counting past 100 a couple times recently.
I'm absolutely certain my child is smarter than me. As always I never really quite know what to do with him other than keep playing. It seems to be working out just fine so far.
I would like some suggestions for books because I have heard the BOB books are boring. Is there another series that is like those books I should look into for my son?
